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Cheyava Falls, Grand Canyon, Arizona

Cheyava Falls, Grand Canyon, Arizona

A fresh rockfall and debris flow removed a small forest of pine trees and soil down to bedrock before stopping in Clear Creek. The rockfall peeled off a large slab of Redwall Limestone immediately next to Cheyava Falls, the tallest waterfall in the Grand Canyon, seen here flowing out of a cave in the Redwall after prolonged precipitation on the North Rim. Cheyava Falls is normally dry.  | Photo by Brian F. Gootee

Photographer: Brian Gootee

Photo Date: March 2005